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Coe Presents Two Papers at APSA Conference

September 2, 2014

Graduate Student Chelsea Coe presented two papers at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Washington, DC: "Linguistic Complexity and Public Acceptance of Supreme Court Decisions" (with Tom Hansford) and "Can Party Identication Make You Virtuous?" (...

Trounstine Research Receives Media Coverage

September 1, 2014

Jessica Trounstine's research on the effect of electoral timing on representation has been highlighted by coauthor Zoltan Hajnal in several media outlets (including the Los Angeles Times) covering the violence in Ferguson, Missouri.

Huang Paper Accepted for Publication in Comparative Politics

August 13, 2014

Haifeng Huang's paper, "Propaganda as Signaling," was accepted for publication in Comparative Politics.

Monroe Receives APSA Best Paper Award

August 12, 2014

Nate Monroe's paper, "On Measuring Legislative Agenda Setting Power" (with Jeffery A. Jenkins), was named the best paper on legislative studies presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association.

Hansford Paper Accepted for Publication at Law and Society Review

August 6, 2014

Tom Hansford's paper, "The Influence of Congressional Preferences on Legislative Overrides of Supreme Court Decisions" (with Alicit Uribe and James F. Spriggs, II), was accepted for publication in Law and Society Review.

Intawan Presentation on Implicit Gender at ISPP Conference

July 8, 2014

Graduate Student Chanita Intawan presented her poster, "Implicit Gender in American Politics" (with Alex Theodoridis), at the Annual Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology in Rome, Italy.

Monroe Named Tony Coelho Endowed Chair of Public Policy

July 1, 2014

Nate Monroe was named the UC Merced Tony Coelho Endowed Chair of Public Policy.

McDermott to Give Talk on Field Experiments in Attitudes Toward Equality

May 27, 2014

Rose McDermott, Professor of Political Science at Brown University, will give a talk entitled, "Field Experiments in Attitudes Toward Gender Equality," as part of the Understanding Politics Speaker Series on May 28, 2014.

Hansford Paper Accepted for Publication in Political Behavior

May 13, 2014

Tom Hansford's paper, "Economic Retrospection and Voter Turnout" (with Brad Gomez), was accepted for publication in Political Behavior.

Fortunato Receives Hellman Faculty Fellows Grant

May 8, 2014

David Fortunato received a $20,000 grant from the UC Merced Hellman Faculty Fellows Fund to support his research.